London College of Fashion Stages BA 2017 Graduate Show

On June 5th, London College of Fashion BA 2017 graduates took over the central space at Old Spitalfields Market in East London with a catwalk show in the round that drew from every area of life: from perceptions of sexuality and the body to the imaginings of a future world where we adapt to survive.

“I know that fashion shapes lives and has the power to change the way we perceive the world,” Head of LCF Professor Frances Corner told partner group NJAL.

“In an era of radical change, both socially and politically, fashion has never been so relevant. We are dedicated to providing world class borderless education, ensuring that the UK remains at the forefront of the creative industries as well as investing and nurturing creative talent to ensure we safeguard the fashion industry, a vital component of the world economy, for future generations.”

Encompassing the nostalgic vision of a pre-computerised society of Shakila Thebe and the latent violence of Alexandra Afanasyeva’s jewellery as well as Nensi Dojaka’s poignant mix of femininity and surrealism, please find below a selection of the best. Credit: photography James Rees.

Xiuxuan Li.

Eleanor Sinden.

Daseul Kim: “This project, ‘A Princeless Mermaid’ is born from the controversial social issue happened in South Korea.”

Can Zheng.

Xin Wen.

Shakila Thebe: “My final collection revolves around the pre-internet period of the 1990s – embracing nostalgic ideas/moments where people still communicated through personal letters.”

About the AuthorBel

Bel Jacobs is a freelance fashion and arts journalist with her own successful blog beljacobs.com. Between 1999 and 2013, she was Style Editor for Metro during which time she helped build the paper’s fashion content, interviewing key figures such as Karl Lagerfeld, Rita Ora, Christian Louboutin, Vivienne Westwood, Philip Treacy, Isabella Blow and Valentino Garavani. In July 2013, at the inaugural Fashion Monitor journalism awards, she was nominated as Fashion Journalist of the Year (Short Lead), for which she was ‘highly commended’. She has been a judge for Fashion Fringe (2011) and the UK Fashion and Textile Awards (2015). She has also hosted panel discussions for Soho Create and Decoded Fashion and written for the British Fashion Council. She is a regular panellist at Nick Knight’s seminal new media site ShowStudio.